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The most prestigious soccer tournament, World Cup (World Cup) in 2010, precisely on June 11 next will be held.
With the presence of the World Cup, the 3.1 million tickets will be sold. In addition, there will be more than 400 million people worldwide who watch every game on television. Many fans who use the Internet to find tickets, accommodation, and flights. However, be careful. The problem cyber criminals such as spammers or scammers are scheming to attack Internet users to manipulate the World Cup.
Paul Wood (senior analyst at Symantec Hosted Services), said that the biggest football tournament this world would attract more than 1 billion fans, including cyber criminals. “According to history, sports events such as large-scale, this will lead to an increase in the number of cyber threats,” explained Wood.
“Phishing attacks increased 66% during the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008. Facts about put two undersea communication cables in the South African coast last July also exacerbate the threat level. History shows that evil activity increased in a country following the availability of new bandwidth, “added Wood through a written statement.
Therefore, users should be careful. The attack is called a 419 scam, spam, and phishing will disguise and woo Internet users through special offers related to the event. To avoid easy. “The rule is, if one looks very unlikely to be true, it probably is a scam,” beber Gordon Love (Africa Regional Director, Symantec).
These cyber criminals with some even picking up orek users’ personal information, the following bank account number, and credit card number for the user’s money drain. Sites that urge vigilance against any scam or spam is rampant.
Not wits, cyber criminals and then poison the user by displaying their fake web site on the first level of search results. “Users often assume that sites that appear first are legitimate sites / original, and perhaps to click these sites without first checking the source,” added Love. So, beware!

“Jackson Still Life”, “Obama condemned the Pope”. That part of the subject that used to deceive the people through infected email.

Most, spam spread by “riding” on the topics of hot news, as reported in McAfee’s “Threat Report Q4 (PDF)” which was released in mid-February. The case of Air France plane crash and death of Michael Jackson in June 2009 continue to be a top theme for the email spammers during the year 2009, noted McAfee. Swine influenza (swine flu) also have contributed to the spread of malware to exploit the user.

Meanwhile, hacktivism (cyberattack political background) increased in the year 2009. In October of that year, the government of Poland reported experiencing an attack from Russia. Then the next interval of two months, namely December, a group calling itself the Army Cyber attack Iran to employees Twitter, Microblogging site that was up leaves.

Still in the same month, an email from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK are also affected by a hacker attack about two weeks before the ongoing climate conference in Copenhagen. Based on these events, some people believe that the attack launched by Russian hackers are hired to ward off global warming.

For the category of the world, the United States (U.S.) holds the title as largest spam producer. Followed by Brazil and India. Whereas most populous country in the world, China managed to bypass the United States and accused the suppliers of successful zombie botnet to infect computers to spread spam. “China has become a giant zombie with relying on SQL injection attacks,” explained Mike Gallagher (Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of McAfee Labs) in a statement.

Actually, the amount of spam last year had dropped in the fourth quarter by 24 percent over the third quarter. The volume of junk email (junk) in the whole world is still at an average amount of 135.5 billion per day. In conclusion, spammers still will rely on the news especially tragedy to trap victims.